Day 6 Monday 6-17

Adventure Day!!!

Today we went to Isle du Bois to plan out our path for installing the monitoring system. 

So far there are three artificial burrowing sites to attract small animals to habitat.  As mention in our earlier blogs, the ultimate goal is to provide alternate housing for the burrowing owls in El Paso.  Since there isn't a shortage at Isle du Bois, we are hoping that any small animal will live in the burrows so that we can test out the monitoring system. 

We will also monitor a birds nest to test out the surveillance system.  A family of birds had already occupied the house, but has now abandoned it : (.  Hopefully another family will come in occupy the house. 

Our lovely drawing of our wiring layout
42 feet to fence
From fence to birdhouse is 165 feet
Fence to DVD possible spot is 140 feet
From DVD possible spot is 114 feet
From DVD possible site to deer site is 212 fee 

 Here is the tricky part.  We needed to measure how long our extension cords will need to be based on the location of this power shed.

Monitoring system with swan system
Doing on grid and then off grid with solar panel
Brian Daniels with TXPW
Doing a survey of area for measurements for cables and four sites for camera
Possibly setting up an Internet feed to interpretative center using wifi
Brian says wifi is patchy out here
Run power from maintenance center, Brian will put covering and flags to cover cables